2007 AAASS Convention Schedule for Library Panels and Committees

Thursday, November 15, 2007

East View's Breakfast and Information Session •  7:30 a.m.

Kick off 2008 AAASS New Orleans with a continental breakfast at Hotel InterContinental's Magnolia Room.

PLEASE RSVP by November 2 by email to info@eastview.com.

— Audubon Room

Session 1 •  1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

— Copyright and the Changing Arena of Scholarly Communication in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies – La Galerie 1

Chair:        Janet Irene Crayne, U of Michigan
Papers:      Michael Albert Newcity, Duke U
                   “Performing Copyright Due Diligence: How to Analyze Legal Compliance of Projects and Programs”
                   Janice T. Pilch, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
                   “Copyright in Slavic and East European Texts and Images in Traditional Systems of Publishing”
                   Kevin S. Hawkins, U of Michigan
                   “Copyright Issues in Open Access Publishing for Slavic Studies”
Disc.:          Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona

Session 2  •  3:45 - 5:45 p.m.

— B & D Subcommittee Meeting on Collection Development – Preservation Hall Studio 5

— The Transfer of Media between East and West during the Cold War: Tamizdat and its Agents – Audubon Room

Chair:        Anna Chukur, U of London (UK)
Papers:      Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Germany)
                  “An ‘Other Europe’ through Tamizdat: Recreating a European literary ‘Kontinent’”
                   Ann Komaromi, U of Toronto (Canada)
                  “Tamizdat Publishing: Motivation and Means”
                   Valentina Parisi, U of Bremen (Germany)
                  “The Tamizdat Journal ‘A-Ja’ and Russian Unofficial Arts in the 70s-80s”
Disc.:          Karolina Ziolo, U of Sheffield (UK)

Session 3  •  6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

— The Kyiv Caves Monastery Printing House and Its Readers during the Seventeenth-Century Orthodox Revival – Mardi Gras Ballroom A

Chair:        Julia Verkholantsev, U of Pennsylvania
Papers:      Matthew Wilson Herrington, Harvard U
                   “Probable Lives: ‘Filling in the Gaps’ in the Printed Slavonic Patericon”
                   Michelle Ruth Viise, Harvard U
                   “Western Borrowing or Eastern Re-invention? The Orthodox Printers’ Conception of Their Trade and Printing House in the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, 1615-1627”
                   Liudmyla Sharipova, U of Nottingham (UK)
                   “A Book that Never Was? Some Considerations about the Hypothetical Publication of Peter Mohyla’s Translation of the Imitation of Christ”
Disc.:          David Frick, UC Berkeley

Thursday Evening  •   6:30 p.m.

— AAASS Opening Reception and Tour of Exhibit Hall – Acadia and Bissonet Ballrooms

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— Collection Matters: Managing, Measuring, and Assessing Slavic Library Collections – Mardi Gras Ballroom C

Chair:        Joanna Epstein, Harvard College Library
Papers:      Michael Edward Biggins,U of Washington
                   “Assessing Campus Impacts of Slavic Library Collections ”
                   Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona
                   “Collection Management Practices, Policies and Responsibilities: A Survey of Slavic Bibliographers”
                   Wook-Jin Cheun, Indiana U
                   “The CIC Slavic Collections through the Eyes of OCLC Collection Analysis”

— Modern Technology in Russian Studies: Quantitative Methods and Database Analysis – Beauregard Room

Chair:        Ilya Prizel, U of Pittsburgh
Papers:      Yitzhak Brudny, The Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Israel)
                   “Ideology of Sovereign Democracy: Insights from Integrum Database”
                   Alexander Smoljanski, Integrum World Wide
                   “How Russian Politics affect Russian Mass-Media”
                   Galina Y. Nikiporets-Takigawa, Tokyo U of Foreign Studies (Japan)
                   “Quantitative Methods and the Humanities”

Session 5  •  10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

— B & D Subcommittee on Copyright Issues – Bonaparte Suite

— New Approaches to Samizdat: The Circulation of Texts across Boundaries and Borders – Balcony M

Chair:         Elina Bloch , Yale U
Papers:       Karolina Ziolo, U of Sheffield (UK)
                    “The Existence of Translated Literature in the Polish Underground”
                    Anna Chukur, U of Toronto (Canada)
                    “Ukrainian Samvydav: Between Aesthetic and National Freedom”
                    Karl E. Loewenstein, U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
                    “Discussions of Forbidden Texts inside the Writer’s Union during the Thaw: When Does Literary Criticism Become Political Opposition?”
Disc.:           Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Germany)

— Using Scholarly Digital Texts and Visual Materials in Teaching – La Galerie 5

Chair:         Miranda Beaven Remnek, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Papers:       David J. Birnbaum, U of Pittsburgh
                    “From Medieval Slavic Philology to Slavic Folklore”
                    Kathleen Macfie Ahern, UNC at Greensboro
                    “Fate of the Poet in the Soviet Era: Digital Texts and Visual Images for the Development of Electronic Portfolios”
                    Kevin Michael Kain, U of Wisconsin-Green Bay
                    “Nineteenth-century Russian History: Integrating Visual Culture into a Classroom”
Disc.:           Bradley Lewis Schaffner, Harvard U

Session 6  •   2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

— Vendor Presentation Session – La Galerie 5

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Session 7  •   8:00 - 10:00 a.m.

— ABSEES Subcommittee Meeting – Bonaparte Suite

— B & D Subcommittee on Digital Projects – Mardi Gras Ballroom A

Session 8  •   10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

— SEEMP – Bacchus Suite

— New Digital Projects for East European History – Mardi Gras Ballroom F & G

Chair:        Jared S. Ingersoll, Columbia U
Part:          Steven A. Barnes, George Mason U
                   Maria Bucur, Indiana U
                   T. Mills Kelly, George Mason U
                   Brian Allen Porter-Szucs, U of Michigan

— eLearning: The Last Resort for Area Studies? – Preservation Hall Studio 9

Chair:        Klaus Segbers, Freie U Berlin (Germany)
Part:          Colleen Creighton, Executive Director, Alliance for Consumer Education
                   Markku Kangaspuro, U of Helsinki (Finland)
                   Katherine M. Kuhns, Stanford U
                   Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College, Columbia U

Session 9  •   2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

— Library Strategies for Preservation: What, Why, and How? – Preservation Hall Studio 4

Chair:         Bradley Lewis Schaffner, Harvard U
Papers:       Vadim Altskan, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
                    “Rescue the Evidence: Archival Acquisitions of the Holocaust-related and Jewish Collections of Eastern Europe”
                    Angela Cannon, Library of Congress
                    “Bulgarian Newspapers, Polish Telephone Books, and Everything in Between: Slavic and Eastern European Preservation Activities at the Library of Congress”
                    Robert E. Lee, East View Information Services
                    “Thank You, Comrade Librarian, for My Collection’s Bright Future: Models for Public/Private Partnership in Preservation”
Disc.:           Stephen David Corrsin, New York Public Library

Session 10  •  4:15 - 6:15 p.m.

— Bibliography & Documentation Committee Working Group Meeting – Balcony I

Saturday Evening

— AAASS Cocktail Buffet (by ticket only) – 6:30 P.M. – Mardi Gras Ballroom E

— AAASS Awards Presentation and President’s Address (open to all) – 7:15 P.M. – Mardi Gras Ballroom D

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— Bibliography & Documentation Committee Meeting 2 – Mardi Gras Ballroom H

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